Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort Over its 200-year history, its premises were cramped and overcrowded ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, Gwilym Williams of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras ...

A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens may not have started out as inhospitable as its reputation suggests. Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology ...

A 19th Century workhouse, which has been described as a "bit of a blot", is being sold. The former Hexham Workhouse on ...

Women’s ward, St. Pancras workhouse, London, England. The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth ...

The sellers of a prominent historic building in a Northumberland town have said they are confident of finding a suitable ...

ONCE A FAMOUS ACTRESS.; Julia St. George, Eighty Years Old, Dies in a London Workhouse. Share full article. Nov. 17, 1903. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

A workhouse was the setting for Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist,” a story that follows an orphan as he navigates the ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London. Read Next .

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...

A site in Bristol that went from prison to hospital to workhouse has been excavated for five years, ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London. Read Next . World ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...